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stage by stage, point by point, till the ideal of the present generation becomes the actual of the next. That again is a lesson which we derive from the life of Dadabhai Naoroji. Referring to the question of Self- government from the Congress platform in Calcutta, he spoke of a begin- ning which would develop itself into full legislatures of Self-government. There must be a beginning, there must be progressive stages, there must be the fina1 culmination in the matter of Self-government.'

So thought the greatest political teacher of our generation; and these have been my ideals for a lifetime. I formed them in my youth; I cherished them in my manhood; I firmly adhere to them in the evening of my days, as convictions deepened by long experience. I closely follow the lines of Tennyson's teachings—a majestic order, a gradual and regular development, without rest, but also without haste. 'Raw haste' he says, 'is but half-sister to delay.'

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